Tan Eggs

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"When I'm a small prey mammal and I've evolved to survive the barren rocky landscape by optimizing into a tan egg"

For posts about animals that loosely fit the description above. While the animal does not have to hit all the requirements, it should hit some of them:

Type: Prey
Class: Mammalia (mammal)
Habitat: Barren rocky landscape
Appearance: Similar to a tan egg

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You can't comb a tan egg flat without creating a cowlick (en.m.wikipedia.org)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28431423

The theorem has been expressed colloquially as "you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick" or "you can't comb the hair on a coconut".

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Good thing they're actually tori, topologically.